Israeli strike kills nine of the children of Gaza doctor, says the hospital

An Israeli air strike on Gaza hit the home of a doctor and killed nine of her 10 children at the hospital where she worked in Han Einnis.

Nasser Hospital said one of Dr. Alaa Al-Nadzhar’s children and her husband were injured, but survived. Grame Groom, a British hospital surgeon, said he had operated on her survivor 11-year-old boy.

A video shared by the Hamas Health Department Director and checked by the BBC showed that small burned bodies were raised by the ruins of a strike in Khan Eunice on Friday.

The BBC addressed the military for comment on Israel.

More than 70 people were killed in Israeli air strikes on Friday, with at least six more killed so far on Saturday, the Hamas Civil Protection Agency told AFP.

Dr. Muneer Albursh, Director of the Ministry of Health, told X that the family house had been struck minutes after Dr. Al-Najar Hamdi’s husband returned home after making his wife work.

Dr. Albursh said that the largest of Dr. Al-Najar’s children is 12 years old.

G -n Groom said the father of the children was “very seriously injured” in a video Posted in Instagram Account Another British surgeon working at Nasser Hospital, Victoria Rose.

He said he asked about his father, also a doctor at the hospital, and told him that “there is no political and no military ties and it does not seem to be known on social media.”

He described it as a “unthinkable” situation for Dr. Al-Nadzhar.

Mahmoud Basal, a spokesman for the Hamas Civil Protection Agency in Gaza, told Telegram on Friday afternoon that his teams had restored eight bodies and several wounded from the Al-Najar house near a gas station in Khan Eunnis.

Initially, the hospital published on Facebook that eight children had been killed and then updated this number to nine two hours later.

In an interview recorded by the AFP news agency, the relative youssef al-Najar said: “Enough!

“We are exhausted by displacement and hunger, enough!”

On Friday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guteres warned that the people in Gaza withstand what could be the “most violent phase” of the war, and denied Israel’s blockade for humanitarian aid imposed in March.

Israel partially lifted the blockade earlier this week. The Israeli military body COGAT said that 83 more trucks carrying flour, food, medical equipment pharmaceuticals entered Gaza on Friday.

The UN has repeatedly said that the amount of entry to help is nowhere close enough for 2.1 million people into the territory – saying it takes between 500 and 600 trucks a day – and urged Israel to allow a lot more.

The limited amount of food that has embarked on Gaza this week has caused chaotic scenes, with armed robberies attacking convoy for help, and the Palestinians crowded outside the bakeries in a desperate attempt to get bread.

An assessment, supported by the UN this month, said the Gaza population was at a “critical risk” of starvation.

The Gaza people have told the BBC that they have no food, and malnourished mothers are not able to breastfeed babies.

Chronic water deficiency also deteriorates as desalination and hygiene plants exhaust fuel and expanding military offensives of Israel cause new waves of displacement.

Israel said the blockade was intended to put pressure on Hamas to release the hostages still in the gas.

Israel has accused Hamas of theft of supplies that the group denied.

Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas’s cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 people and 251 others were hostage.

At least 53 822 people, including at least 16,500 children, have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the health ministry in the territory.

Additional reporting from David Grout and Yaroslav Lukov